Day 1: Travel Day

Headed out today to start making our way to Key West. The weather was gray, chilly and foggy until we were almost to Florida. We had hoped to make it to Chad & Bree's in Indian Harbor before sunset, but alas, Florida traffic had other plans. The perk of arriving after dark was seeing the palm trees wrapped in lights, which Holden kept calling Florida Christmas Trees.

Chad and Bree welcomed us with big hugs and the kids quickly gelled over video games. They treated us to a feast of freshly harvested stone crab that they caught that morning from their own traps. They were INCREDIBLE and the boys got to try cracking the shells on their own. It really doesn't get much more Florida than that.

We stayed up late talking in their backyard while the boys swam in their street clothes in the pool. It was a pretty lovely first night in Florida.

We settled in for the night in their lovely newly built MIL suite. Just as we were about to fall asleep and alarm started chirping somewhere. We finally found it in the boys' room and Nate climbed up to take the fire alarm down. It kept chirping. We took the battery out. It kept chirping. Finally I took it to the garage where it chirped again and in my late night fog, I shoved it into the deep freezer by the door. We slept peacefully thereafter.Read more